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  A contemporary view is provided by Le Matin (France), “one of four biggest French dailies” (Wikipedia):

  Yesterday morning, the French police engaged in a vast round-up of about 5,000 foreign Jews, of between 18 and 40 years, principally ex-Polish, ex-Czech and ex-Austrian. Three camps have been prepared to receive them in the occupied zone. The most important of these is Gurs (Lower Pyenées), capable of holding 2,000 people. Two others, not far from Orleans... these people will be occupied with the repair of roads, buildings and public places damaged by the war...Public opinion has noted with satisfaction this first measure of purification which calls for others...In the train which carried us, the Jews were pensive or laughing...The camp, as far as I could judge, does not appear very unpleasant...Prefabricated sheds, without a doubt, meals as in barracks, but a cheerful security service, fresh air, indeed a certain comfort...Thus, yesterday morning, when they got up, the internees of Pithiviers were able to wash with running water. After which they were assembled to establish their individual records. Then they were sent for breakfast. When they had finished, the children of Judah, while awaiting the work to which they are destined, went to play belote. Many war victims in our northern provinces, many prisoners, do not have such comforts.

  Thomas (Louis Thomas, French author, 1885-1962) alludes particularly to bookshops, antiquarians, furriers, hatteries, tailors, discounters, and the swindlers of the Marais, who must disappear without delay: “Paris, cleared of Jews, will once again become a city in which the spirit is free. (Chronologie Robert Denoël – May 27, 1941)

  Memo from today: the oldest known Holocaust survivor dies aged 110, in London. Born in Prague, she spent two years in Theresienstadt concentration camp, in occupied Czechoslovakia, during the war and distracted the prisoners from the daily horror with her piano-music.(...) Theresienstadt was originally founded as an “old people’s ghetto” for German Jews. (bluewin.ch news 24.2.2014, author’s translation; multiple other sources)

  What can we deduce from this? Yet another Jew survived for two years in a concentration camp; she had access to a piano; her health allowed her to live almost 70 years after the war ended and to die at age 110. If she was born in 1904, she would have been about 38 when she was incarcerated, assuming that this took place in 1942. Hardly an “old person”; just a Czech Jew who was logically sent to the nearest camp. We may be allowed to question the exact circumstances in which her piano-playing was juxtaposed with “the daily horror.” Did she perhaps provide background music while her fellow-inmates hauled rocks in the quarry, under the watchful eyes of sadistic SS-men? Or did she merely play the camp’s piano in the evenings in a hall? Which is more likely?

  In 2012, the first Miss “Holocaust” survivor pageant was held in Israel. The winner was 79.

  “Some events do take place but are not true; others are although they never occurred.”

  “What are you writing?” the Rebbe asked. “Stories,” I said. He wanted to know what kind of stories: true stories. “About people you knew?” Yes, about things that happened or could have happened. “But they did not?” No, not all of them did. In fact, some were invented from almost the beginning to almost the end. The Rebbe leaned forward as if to measure me up and said with more sorrow than anger: “That means you are writing lies!” I did not answer immediately. The scolded child within me had nothing to say in his defense. Yet, I had to justify myself: “Things are not that simple, Rebbe. Some events do take place but are not true; others are although they never occurred.” (NobelPrize winner Elie Wiesel, published in his book Legends of Our Time about his experience in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Schocken Books, New York 1982, page viii (introduction)

  It has been proposed that the few still breathing “survivors of the camps” be cloned in order to preserve their unique mental disposition against the day when the club of “Holocaust” remembrance may lose its intimidating effect (“Cloning of Holocaust Martyrs seen as only way to preserve extermination legend,” “Mass Production of Elie Wiesels to Start This Week,” Michael K. Smith, September 19, 2009)

  Later, I learn from a witness that, for month after month, the ground never stopped trembling; and that, from time to time, geysers of blood spurted from it. (Wiesel, Paroles d’étranger, Editions du Seuil, 1982, p. 86.)

  “N’importe quoi!” (“Whatever!”) as the French so eloquently say. What haven’t we had among the vaudevillian diversity of methods of extermination recalled, or rather dreamed up by the ever-fertile, if not downright pornographic, Jewish imagination: gas, electrocution, diesel exhaust, pumping the air out of a room, chlorine, quicklime, gas with retarded effect, hot steam.

  Courier-Mail, Brisbane, October 18, 1945 (Re-set from original for eligibility)

  “Tales of the Holohoax.” One way of challenging ridiculous claims is to satirize them.

  Another example of sheer fantasy is Herman Rosenblat, who shamelessly confided : “Yes, it’s not true, but in my imagination it was true,” in answer to an ABC interviewer, questioning his absurd story about having met his future wife in a concentration camp when she threw apples over a fence to him (2012). He even travelled to Auschwitz to demonstrate how this happened. “Among a number of other false elements in Rosenblat’s story, he claimed that he was scheduled to be gassed at 10am on May 10, 1945, and that the liberation saved him by just two hours.” (Wikipedia) Beside the facts that Theresienstadt Camp was liberated and WWII ended on 8 May 1945, one did not suppose that those about to be exterminated received prior chronological notification. Yet this is the kind of blatant humbug by which billions have been extorted.

  LONDON — Of all the stories of survival from the Auschwitz concentration camp, Gena Turgel’s is one of the most astonishing. “When I think back, I have to pinch myself sometimes to see if I’m really alive,” the 90-year-old told NBC News. Turgel, an elegant woman with more than a hint of mischief in her blue eyes, survived not one or two, but three Nazi concentration camps. In the most notorious of all, Auschwitz-Birkeanau (sic), she was herded naked into a gas chamber with hundreds of others. Yet Turgel, who was 21 at the time, walked out alive. She had no idea the Nazis had tried to kill her until a woman she knew said, “Don’t you know what has just happened to you? You were in the gas chamber!” Turgel still looks amazed to have cheated death. “I completely lost my voice,” she said. “I just never realized I was in the gas chamber ... it must not have worked..”.. She survived testing by the infamous Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele. ...

  After two months, as the Red Army advanced towards Auschwitz, she was sent on a “death march,” first to Buchenwald concentration camp and then to Belsen, where she shared a barracks with the dying Dutch teenager Anne Frank. “I wear a lot of perfume,” she whispers. “The stench of the camps will always stay with me and I try to block it out.” It’s not the only physical reaction she has to her ordeal. Her 17-year-old sister Miriam used to sleep with her, on her left side. Miriam was shot by the Germans for smuggling food into Plaszov. She says she still feels a constant chill along her left arm. The ghosts of the camp and her family — she lost seven siblings and her father — still haunt her. As we talk, tears come to her eyes, but she doesn’t let them fall. “To cry in Auschwitz could have you shot,” she said. “We had to be strong, to block out everything.” “My story is only one story, but it is the story six million others cannot tell. I was, and always shall be, the witness to ... mass murder.” (NBC News, January 26, 2015)

  Auschwitz + 6 million + gas chamber + Anne Frank + Mengele + death march? Overdoing it? Not as long as there’s a gullible audience.

  Israelis and American Jews fully agree that the memory of the Holocaust is an indispensable weapon--one that must be used relentlessly against their common enemy. Jewish organizations and individuals thus labour continuously to remind the world of it. In America, the perpetuation of the Holocaust memory is now a $100-million-a-year enterprise, part of which is government-funded. (Moshe Leshem, Israeli ambassador in Balaam’s Curse, Simon &
Shuster, 1989)

  The definition of “common enemy” was generously expanded in 1991 to include Iraq, during the U.S. “Gulf War” against that unfortunate country. In a newspaper about as reliable as the Weekly World News tabloid (“Gay Aliens Found in UFO Wreck”-- June 14, 2004), the Jewish Press announced “Iraqis have gas chambers for all Jews” (February 21, 1991) and the “Simon Wiesenthal Center” (unaccountably named after a self-dramatizing “Nazi-hunter”-- whose memoirs variously claim he had spent time in as many as eleven concentration camps (Wikipedia)-- and self-promoting loser who famously failed to catch Dr. “human experiments” Mengele or anyone else), in its publication “Response,” joined the same trend, a perennial winner, showing what appear to be garden huts, under the title “Iraq’s German-made gas chambers” and “Germans produce Zyklon B in Iraq” (Volume 12, No. 1, Spring 1991). So the eternally abused Germans, 46 years after the war’s end, are still being made to carry the can, um, corpus delicti.

  Pseudo-scientific studies from reputable publishers match lurid reports in the yellow press in their unflagging eagerness to unveil some allegedly new or rehashed aspect of the period, and to serve the cause and earn a buck. Yet a glance at their sources suffices to reveal that they are, without exception, all based on hearsay and tainted evidence.

  Memo from today:Critical voices in Israel warn that a new generation of Germans might call for a normalisation of relations with Israel and might not want any longer to support Israel unconditionally despite the historical guilt of the Holocaust. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 27 February 2014)

  In 2012 the New York Times reported that this prodigious fable had been instrumental in squeezing $89 billion out of Germany and showed a photograph of “the annual conference to revise the qualifications for reparations for Holocaust victims”—67 years after the end of the war. (May, 2014. The courts confirmed that the state of Berlin must continue to pay the Jewish community 434,000 Euros a month. The state administration had asked in vain for details of the community’s expenses.)

  Memo from today: “At a closed meeeting of Israeli journalists and diplomats, a speaker for the Israeli embassy in Germany, Adi Farjon, according to information in the Israeli daily Haaretz, declared that it was in Israel’s interest to maintain Holocaust sensitivity among Germans, and that on account of this, Israel did not desire a complete normalisation of its relationship with Germany.

  “As Haaretz further reported, after the “closed session” some of the invited journalists had voiced their displeasure over Farjon’s remarks and went public with his statement. A journalist who wished to remain anonymous explained Farjon’s remarks to Haaretz: “The speaker said in clear words that Israel had an interest in maintaining German feelings of guilt. She even said that without these we would be just like any other country, at least as far as Israel was concerned.” (www.rtdeutsch.com, July 1, 2015)

  Memo from today: It never stops. February 10, 2014. Before leaving for dinner, I switch on the news. Hungarian Jews are boycotting their own national holocaust memorial day, as a rebuke to Hungary which supposedly deported 600,000 Jews in 1944. Another channel shows a documentary about Himmler. In the car, Deutschlandfunk Radio announces that a certain Harald Roth has produced a book entitled Was hat der Holocaust mit mir zu tun? or “What Does the Holocaust have to do with me?” (with cover picture of the hideous Berlin cement-block desert), containing 37 “answers,” including one from Germany’s ex-President Richard von Weizsäcker (Random House/Pantheon). The author’s stated purpose is to counteract the satiation the German public feels at repeated mention of this subject, whose monotonous drone and constant intrusion into the private lives of ordinary citizens has indubitably become boring beyond bearing.

  Ever since 1945, Germany has gone through an exhaustive process it calls “Vergangenheitsbewältigung” or “mastering the past”/”struggle to come to terms with the past” (Wikipedia). By this, is chiefly meant “the holocaust.” However, mastering the past as it really occurred still stands before Germany. This task requires far more courage than merely nodding along submissively to the dictates of the occupiers.

  On a gene-related question, is lack of principle an inherited trait? Weizsäcker’s father betrayed his government and his people (alleged coup against Hitler, “Verratene Verräter,” pp. 49-52, et alibi), but some excuse him as a patriot of his time; his son cannot claim ignorance when asserting that his country was freed on May 8, 1945, nor was it necessary to contribute to the above book.

  The same could be said of Karl Ludwig von Guttenberg, who joined Sefton Delmer’s enemy propaganda radio; his son, an opportunist who was forced to resign from government for plagiarizing his doctoral dissertation, went on to work for an American think tank. Recently, this minor gentleman-grafter founded a company which gives “strategic investment advice on political, commercial, technological and security questions” (“strategische und Investitionsberatung zu politischen, wirtschaftlichen, technologischen und Sicherheitsfragen”-- Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, June 26, 2014), clearly a concern of yawn-making redundancy. He also promotes TTIP. It is reported that his erstwhile political allegiance, the CSU Party, is endeavouring to sneak him back into its ranks.

  “Give us this day our daily Hitler,” beg the re-educated Gutmenschen (toadies), in thrall to their Jewish patrons. And it comes to pass, as sure as eggs is eggs, that at least one German television channel, during the course of an evening, will show some “documentary” or docu-drama or fiction on a subject linked to the fateful twelve years. It almost distresses me to have to contradict all those credulous yet earnest German “historians” and “experts” in “social psychology” and the like, who have devoted so much of their energy to devising tens of thousands of hours of propaganda on national television networks like ZDF or N-24 to defame their own country. Almost—but not quite. These indoctrinated degree-holders are stabbing their fellow-citizens as thoroughly and regularly in the back as did the German collaborators of the Communist cause in 1917. They have created an industry out of the blameless reminiscences of a few old soldiers and convenient fragments of archival film material, cobbled together with an unreliable commentary in which the utterance “extermination” occurs so often that the viewer can sense their hectoring overlords breathing down their necks.

  Historians, however biased, are professional ledger-keepers of the past. I am not one of them and this is not intended to be a formal rebuttal of commonly accepted narratives. It is a purely personal record and I am accountable to no one for my opinions. However, in order to forestall charges of partiality, a certain balance in a subordinate subject is necessary. While the melodramatically named “death camps” were not killing factories but internment areas, in which the deaths of inmates were a consequence of conditions, enough evidence exists to confirm the existence of “Einsatzgruppen,” task forces primarily created to carry out the “Kommissarbefehl,” or order to root out and eliminate Russian commissars, imposed by successive Communist despots in order to implement their dehumanizing ideology, and hated by the people. These mainly Jewish commissars were therefore political officials and not soldiers, and they had no moral right to protection under the Geneva Convention (1929), which the USSR had anyway refused to sign.

  The Jewish commissars in charge of the anti-kulak program, which was tantamount to genocide, were literally the masters over life and death. In 1936, after the slaughter of the peasantry “at the hands of the Bolshevik Jews,” the death bell began to toll for those who had been responsible for the carnage. For the first time in a Russian historical work, their names are listed: Ya. Yakovlev-Epstein, M. Kolmanovich, G. Roschal, V. Feygin. (p. 285) (Solzhenitsyn, quoted in Wolfgang Strauss, Solzhenitsyn’s 200 Years Together, March 11, 2012)

  No doubt this Convention is a fine document, but it is unlikely, in any case, that a mere Soviet signature would have protected ordinary German civilians, women and children, from the terrible persecution to which they were subjected at the hands of Russian soldiers, Polish
and Czech citizens and Jewish partisans, during and after the last months of the war. Neither did the Geneva Convention prevent the grievous mishandling of German prisoners of war by the signatories (the Allies) themselves. Jewish viciousness was particularly evident in their exhortations to Russian soldiers and partisans to kill Germans towards the end of the last world war.

  Do not count the days, do not count the miles. Count only the Germans you have killed. Kill the German - this is your old mother’s prayer. Kill the German - this is what your children beseech you to do. Kill the German - this is the cry of your Russian earth. Do not waver. Do not let up. Kill. (Ilya Ehrenburg - Jewish Communist propagandist of the Second World War.)

  Their leaders must have needed to be certain of crushing this culturally exceptional nation, so that it would never again challenge them. These marauders were motivated by vindictiveness and plunder to be sure, but also perhaps, subconsciously, by a recognition and hatred of the handsome German physiognomy, so blatantly contrary to their own.

  In the knowledge of the terroristic and extermination orders of the Red Army and the planned use of “annihilation divisions” and “punishment divisions” of the NKWD (previously named GPU/MWD/KGB), as well as a long planned preparation for bolshevist guerilla warfare in the expected case of a military confrontation with the German Reich, the Armed Forces High Command (OKW) and the High Command of the Army (OKH) had taken the precaution of working out and preparing the necessary orders for the protection of their own troops, in the prospectively occupied regions and the areas ahead and behind the operational zones. What was to be expected of the Red Army and the NKWD had been demonstrated by the atrocities, mass murders and deportations by the Soviets during their assault on Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and their occupation of Poland. This guideline confirmed the background of Moscow’s obstinate refusal to recognize or sign the rules of the Geneva Convention and the Hague Convention on land warfare. (The Task Forces, a Necessary Correction, Lothar Greil, Castle Hill Publishers)